European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Alumnia congratulated the Romanian authorities for their efforts and voiced hope that the European Commission would soon give Romania the second tranche, worth one billion euros, of the5 billion euro loan contracted in Bucharest from the European Commission…

The Romanian Government will approve early February a draft law regulating technical unemployment as the main method of protecting employees, starting with February 1, 2010, in a fashion similar to the system applied last year, said Prime Minister Emil Boc, after talks with unions and employers…

Romania increases its natural gas imports from Russia by 2 million cubic meters, to 12 million cu.m. a day, state secretary Tudor Serban announced. "I had a phone talk with Gazprom and asked for an increase of imports, so that we secure the operation of the gas system in good conditions…